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Investment-Grade Properties See Largest Year-Over-Year Gain Since 2006
17 Mar 2011 |
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January CoStar Commercial Repeat Sales Index Illustrates How Rapidly Prices were Falling a Year Ago – And How Much They’ve Improved
CoStar’s index tracking repeat sales of investment-grade commercial properties jumped 10.6% in January over the same period last year, the largest year-over-year gain since the height of the real estate boom in 2006.
The increase in the index for higher-quality properties hit a five-year high for January despite dipping slightly from December, a reflection of how hard the index fell a year ago and how strongly it has recovered within 12 months.
“Pricing is all relative,” said Chris Macke, CoStar senior real estate strategist. “The fact that January’s reading was negative on a monthly basis but the largest gain since 2006 on a year-over-year basis indicates how fast the index was falling a year ago — and how much it has improved since then.”
The volume of investment-grade repeat sales transactions rose 54% in January from a year ago, a significant increase that reflects the appetite of buyers for trophy office, apartment, retail and hotel properties. Sales pairs of general grade properties, which reflect sales of non-investment grade buildings, declined 1% over the year-ago level
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